Customer Reviews

Access Developer's Toolkit

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I was terribly disappointed with this, and consider it a complete and total waste of time and money. It is ostensibly comprised of freeware and shareware Access utilities, demos, and samples collected from the Internet, BBs, online services, etc. Unfortunately, however, no effort was made to note which work for Access 1, which for Access 2, which for Access 95, which for Access 97, etc. So you have to unzip and invoke each one to learn that most are for Access 1 or 2 and won't even work with later versions.

It would seem like a much better idea to instead try the free trial memberships at AOL, Compuserve, etc, and download the freeware and shareware utilities from their extensive Access libraries (where you can easily see which are for Access 1 and which for Access 97), do the same at web sites and online services, etc. In the end, you'll have the latest and most bug free versions, and will save a lot of time and money.

I gave this one star because that was the lowest rating available. I really think it deserves a minus, though. It wouldn't have been all that difficult for the authors to have at least noted the date on which each version was released, or, preferably, the latest version of Access it was known to work with.

This book was originally issued in 1995; the second edition slightly updated in 1997. In 1995 the "Internet" was not easily available. The purpose of the book was to make available, in one place, the wealth of freeware and shareware functions then available for Access. Many were necessary to correct omissions in Access versions of the time, and those routines can still be used and modified now in current versions. For every program included, the author is clearly identified, with mail address, telephone and/or email contact information, and all consented to be published in this book/CD. Most programs and source code in this book/CD do still work with Access 2000.